Main ideas supporting details for Third Grade
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Main Ideas & Supporting Details
The main idea of a paragraph is what all the sentences are about.
What is a “Main Idea?”
What are Supporting Details?
Supporting details help you to better understand the main idea.
Supporting details answer the questions of who, what, when and where.
There once was a boy who
had weird parents.No matter how
many times he told them not to, the weird parents did weird things whenever they
went out into the world.
There once was a boy who
had weird parents.No matter how
many times he told them not to, the weird parents did weird things whenever they
went out into the world.
The weird mother always
talked about the boy as if he
wasn’t there.“My son has a
belly button that sticks out. No one else in our family has one
like it.”
The weird mother always
talked about the boy as if he
wasn’t there.“My son has a
belly button that sticks out. No one else in our family has one
like it.”
And the weird father always asked the boy to do something silly. “Walk like a chicken,” he’d say.Of course the boy wouldn’t, so the weird father did it instead.
And the weird father always asked the boy
to do something silly.
“Walk like a chicken,” he’d
say.Of course the boy wouldn’t, so the
weird father did it instead.
Why do we need supporting details?
Supporting details help you get a better picture of the story.
They give you more information. This information helps you understand what
you are reading.
What main idea can you see going on here?
What details support that idea?